Mindful Nature Pathways Program

An 8-week online journey to help you develop mindful awareness, connectedness to nature, and a more balanced way of living

This program is a unique collaboration between mindfulness and nature practices. It’s primarily a personal journey of exploration that will guide you into a closer relationship with yourself, your immediate community and the environment.

When these three spheres are in harmony, we find ourselves in a place where we more easily manage the balancing act of taking care of ourselves, others and the environment. We can then shift our attention to a new way of living that prioritises health, connection and nature towards finding greater well-being and peace.

“This course is what is needed in our world at a time like this. When we connect with nature we realise how interconnected and interdependent we are. It encourages us to continue to save and protect our natural world in any way possible.”

[Christine]

Introduction

Get started on your journey to a deeper and more mindful connection to nature with my free intro course on nature-based mindfulness.

[Includes 6 videos, 2 downloadable practice audios and a pdf manual]

Week 1 Sensing Nature

Connecting to Nature – Awakening the Senses

Mind wandering and mindfulness
Automatic pilot and attention
Awakening the senses, exteroceptive sensations
Experiential tasting of nature
Open sensory awareness and fascination in nature,
Sensory nature meditations

Week 2 - Earth

Nature Connectedness – Grounding and Breathing

Perceptions and beliefs – From doing to being
Awareness of the breath as an anchor
Earthing practices
Finding your sit spot
Nature’s breath
Breathing with nature meditations

Week 3 - Water

Connecting to Nature’s Rhythm – Flow and Movement

The mind in motion – acorns and pebbles
Gathering the mind through the breath
Mindful movement
The body and breath in harmony with nature
Flow and movement in nature
Mindful walking in nature

Week 4 - Fire

Challenging Connections – Recognising Mind Storms

Turning towards the difficulty – assessing the storm
Mind storms in times of stress
Mindfulness in the rain
The benefits of fire and storms in nature
Bringing rainbows and fire into our life
Listening to the mountain

Week 5 - Ether

Connecting to the Space – Allowing and Letting Be

Allowing and creating a space – letting be
The principle of emptiness
Sitting in the clearing
From self to oneness – insight and connectedness
Walking a labyrinth
Resting and immersion in the liminal lake

Week 6 - Air

Connection and Disconnection – Passing Thoughts

Thoughts and mind traps, letting go of the conceptual
The sky of awareness, a new relationship to thoughts
Sitting meditation, with sounds and thoughts
The nature of impermanence and imperfection
Making nature offerings
Cloud watching and working with the wind

Week 7 - The Forest

Nourishing and Flourishing – Compassionate Action

Nourishing and taking care of yourself
Walking through the forest and befriending
Loving kindness in practice
Working with trees, creating a MAP
Forest bathing and forest therapy
Becoming a tree meditatio

Week 8 - The Heart

Connecting to your true nature – Following the heart path

Your personal Unalome – the path to enlightenment
Environmental Gratitude
Pro-environmental behavior and climate action
What is your true nature?
Planting your garden – reflections and dandelion seeds
Cross-fertilization – where to now?

Beautiful medicine for our time

Mindful Nature Pathways is one of the gentlest yet most powerful healing and personal development practices there is, combining the two fundamental realms of mind and nature into one holistic practice. Give yourself the gift of going straight to the source of health and wellbeing – nature itself.